Release Me

stop using npm version, use release-me

Automatic versioning and CHANGELOG generation.

How it works:

1. when you're ready to release to npm:
2. git checkout master; git pull origin master
3. run release-me
4. git push --follow-tags origin master; npm publish

release-me does the following:

1. bumps the version in package.json/bower.json (based on your commit history)
2. uses conventional-changelog (with conventional-changelog-release-me preset) to update CHANGELOG.md
3. commits package.json (et al.) and CHANGELOG.md
4. tags a new release

Installation

As npm run script

Install and add to devDependencies:

npm i --save-dev release-me

Add an npm run script to your package.json:

{
  "scripts": {
    "release": "release-me"
  }
}

Now you can use npm run release in place of npm version.

This has the benefit of making your repo/package more portable, so that other developers can cut releases without having to globally install release-me their machine.

As global bin

Install globally (add to your PATH):

npm i -g release-me

Now you can use release-me in place of npm version.

This has the benefit of allowing you to use release-me on any repo/package without adding a dev dependency to each one.